Tasting Notes

Maturity:

Keep/Drink

ABV:

15 %

Notes

This was one of the most remarkable discoveries of our tasting trip: in a top class year for the dry whites, Margaux’s 100% Sauvignon Blanc offering has trumped its own string of recent successes with a heart-stopping wine of great power and elegance. It sports an astonishing 15.5% alcohol – all natural – yet is so well-endowed with sumptuous, racy fruit and stylish mineral freshness that you simply don’t notice it. Only 60% of the chateau’s white grapes were selected for this cuvée, picked in three separate passes through the vineyards, and the wine spent 9 months in barrel, of which a third were new. This is a must for lovers of fine whites.

Critics score

Score:

100

Source:

Stephen Tanzer, Vinous

Date:

05/2008

Notes

(15.5% alcohol; harvested in three passes through the vines) Very pale color. Pungent, complex nose offers candied lemon peel, white peach, a note of honey and piquant mineral lift. Extremely powerful on the palate, with flavors of white peach and minerals and a chewy impression of extract. Boasts incredible volume and explosive fruit but today I am aware of the wine’s high alcohol. Perhaps most impressive on the extraordinarily tactile finish: this struck me as one of the longest wines of any color or type that I tasted on my spring Bordeaux tour.

specifications

country:

region:

Appellation:

Producer:

style:

Grape Variety:

Allergen Information:

This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.